News and Awards

Tan’s research focuses on the melding of man and machine, specifically using the entire human body as an input device.

The award for thinking creatively about keyboard replacement goes to a group of Microsoft researchers that includes Daniel Morris and intern Scott Saponas. It’s one of a number of efforts around the country involving muscle…

Songsmith is a very clever piece of software that lets you choose a musical style and sing a song into your PC’s microphone, and then creates an instrumental backing to this melody.

Tan discusses his work combining digital and physical worlds, in which virtual information is layered onto a person’s view of the real world.

Money-Driven Medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need to become knowledgeable and vigorous participants in healthcare reform.

Microsoft’s new SongSmith software can fill out the harmonies. As software developed by Microsoft Research Labs, Songsmith uses artificial intelligence to generate an accompaniment to vocals you sing into your PC’s microphone.

Songsmith joins together the two loves of Dan Morris at Microsoft Research: music and computer science.

On January 7, 2009, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented two Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for the development of the H.264 / MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard, a project led…

For nearly thirty years of significant, sustained, and continuing contributions to research, for exceptional mentorship, and for leadership in bridging the fields of information retrieval and human computer interaction.